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SOLUTION: Some Music Won't Play After Upgrading Your iPhone To iOS7

After upgrading to iOS 7, some of you, including me, started having an issue where some of your songs refuse to play on your iPhones and iPods. There was also a red square inside of a red circle next to the song which I guess, was adding to the problem of the songs not playing. I had no idea what the issue was, so I searched and searched but came out with no solution to this annoying problem. Until last night. I was just messing around in the settings app and discovered that it was neither iTunes 11 nor iOS 7 that was the cause of this problem. It's all a matter of how the settings in your iPhone or iPod are set up. Follow these instructions to get your songs working again!


Step 1: Go to the "Settings" app on your Springboard (iPhone or iPod)


Step 2: Scroll down to the "iTunes & App Store" category.


Step 3: Where it says "Automatic Downloads", turn off the "Music" slider.


Step 4: Sync and enjoy playing ALL of your music!


It took me a while to figure this out, but I'm glad that I can help you guys. Have a great day!


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iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, Works on every iPhone and iPod!

Posted on Oct 1, 2013 8:11 AM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2013 10:26 AM

Thanks for your suggestion but it did not solve the problem for me. It did remove all the songs that wouldn't play that had the red square/red circle symbol but they were all songs that are in my iTunes library that I bought so I don't know what is going on. I have a iPhone 4S and I have the latest iOS7 update and latest iTunes update so I don't know what is to blame or going wrong. I just know everything was fine befgore iOS7. I also tried to remove a playlist (no sucess) and reload a playlist (no success)

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Nov 15, 2013 4:20 PM in response to DJPens

I had this problem on my iPhone 4s where only the songs that I had downloaded directly from iTunes played, but for whatever reason it's began fixing itself. When I plugged in my phone to my iMac and went onto iTunes, on the "On This Phone" section, all my music that wasn't playing (Had a red square) beside it was in a dull gray with a dotted circle where the tick selection should be. The dotted circle began to fill on each song and began redownloading to my phone again!


However, my recently added music (not downloaded from iTunes store) still isn't going to my music which started happening just before any of this,

Nov 25, 2013 8:52 PM in response to DJPens

I have tried all of these things, turned off music slider under the automatic downloads. Then I tried turning off find my phone,then I did a restore on my Iphone 5 and restored it and this didn't work. then I deleated my Icloud account and synced all off my music and playlists that I had selected to sync in Itunes

SOLUTION: Some Music Won't Play After Upgrading Your iPhone To iOS7

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